Author: ROYAL DUTCH NAVY INFORMATION SERVICE:
Title: Elementaire Cursus Indonesië. Koninklijke Marine [Title on front cover label]. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: [Amsterdam], s.n. [Koninklijke Marine, [..], 1947. Large 8°l Original limp blue coloured publ. wrappers decorated in indonesian traditional art style, stapled. White title-label on front cover. 32pp. Many captioned monochrome sketch-maps, comparative tables and diagrams in text, large exctending map illustrating the Indonesian archipalago at rear end, with key referring to place-names on facing page. Dutch language publication in which basic information about post-war Indonesia is supplied to Royal Dutch Navy officers to be posted in the Dutch East Indies, in support of dutch troops during the dutch-indonesian armed dispute, 1945-1950. Information is preceded by information about political relations within the Dutch Kingdom, e.g.: The Netherlands, the East-, West-Indies and minor colonial territories as New Guinea and Surinam; climate and geography, the indonesian population in general, Hinduism and Islam, commercial activities and world-trade: agriculture and strategic minerals, wold-connections by sea and air. An interesting brochure, stressing the importance of the colony from various points of view, incl. the strategic position serving as a buffer-sone to expanding communism in mainland Asia. Good copy. (copy a bit dog-eared and used).

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